Abstract Successful coping is important for staff well-being, retention and reducing absenteeism, especially those employed in high emotional labour jobs such as crime scene investigation (CSI). Antecedents of successful can include self-efficacy, locus control, optimism, resilience, self-esteem. However, a dearth literature exists attaining to the importance emotion-regulation mindfulness thes...

Suicide notes play a pivotal role in death investigation. SNARE (Suicide Note Assessment REsearch) software classifies texts as a suicide note or control text-type with accuracies from 80%-88%, depending on text length, from a database of about 1,000 English sources. Our objective was a pilot study to determine SNARE’s reliability among a non-English-speaking sample. Suicide notes were collecte...

Crime scene serves as the starting point for forensic science and can generate valuable data that must bemeticulously, methodically, scientifically, lawfully gathered. If crime is not handled appropriately,it become misleading render crucial information useless, leading to an investigation on wrong path.Forensic has undergone a revolution thanks use of DNA technologies. Many times, due theinves...

In this work, we propose a method for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of wide crime scene, based on a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) approach. We used a Kinect V2 Time-of-Flight (TOF) RGB-D camera to provide colored dense point clouds at a 30 Hz frequency. This device is moved freely (6 degrees of freedom) during the scene exploration. The implemented SLAM solution aligns su...

1 Since the 1970s, investigative profilers at the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit (now part of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime) have been assisting local, state, and federal agencies in narrowing investigations by providing criminal personality profiles. An attempt is now being made to describe this criminal-profile-generating process. A series of five overlapping stages lea...